29 July 2011

WAITING for the grownups—both the rebels and NATO—to break the stalemate in Libya and enter Tripoli, a group in Benghazi called "Creative kids", whose members are children and teenagers, have come up with their own way of toppling Colonel Muammar Qaddafi; a giant board game. In "Mercenaries and Rebels" players throw dice to move from prison in Bab Alazizia, Colonel Qaddafi's home where he delivered his rant from beneath an umbrella, via Misrata and the Nafusa mountains to Tripoli. The game starts at a square in Benghazi marked February 17th, Libya's first "day of rage". It ends at a square in Tripoli marked Freedom. That one, thus far, has no date.